Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 5
«How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!» thinks Alice — it's like being at school.
Who acts: creatures, Alice, Gryphon · What happens: order, make, repeat, think, be · To what, where: one, lessons, school · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, Alice, Gryphon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 order | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 order | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creatures | det |
| 4 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 order | nsubj |
| 5 | order | order | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 order | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 order | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 order | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 repeat | nummod |
| 12 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 repeat | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinks | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinks | punct |
| 16 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 order | conj |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thinks | nsubj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 school | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 school | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 school | cop |
| 21 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 24 school | mark |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 school | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 school | case |
| 24 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 order | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 order | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order in a quote | infinitive | the creatures | one | about property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | the creatures not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | repeat in a quote | infinitive | the creatures not said here | lessons | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | Gryphon | school | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:5.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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